Battling the plantation mentality
Green, Laurie Boush.
Battling the plantation mentality Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / [electronic resource] : Laurie B. Green. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - 415 p. : ill., maps. - The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture . - John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-379) and index.
Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta -- Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror -- Where would the Negro women apply for work?: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education -- We were making history: students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis freedom movement -- Battling the plantation mentality: from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Tennessee--Memphis--20th century.
African Americans--Segregation--History--Tennessee--Memphis--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Tennessee--Memphis--20th century.
African Americans--History--Tennessee--Memphis--20th century.
Racism--History--Tennessee--Memphis--20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.)--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
F444.M59 / N485 2007eb
323.1196/0730768190904
Battling the plantation mentality Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / [electronic resource] : Laurie B. Green. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - 415 p. : ill., maps. - The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture . - John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-379) and index.
Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta -- Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror -- Where would the Negro women apply for work?: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education -- We were making history: students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis freedom movement -- Battling the plantation mentality: from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Tennessee--Memphis--20th century.
African Americans--Segregation--History--Tennessee--Memphis--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Tennessee--Memphis--20th century.
African Americans--History--Tennessee--Memphis--20th century.
Racism--History--Tennessee--Memphis--20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.)--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
F444.M59 / N485 2007eb
323.1196/0730768190904